Benjamin Bertelsen

A question for the devs in this thread on PH 🙋‍♂️ I'm helping out a technical founder on his no-code/low-code project. He's been working on the past year and a half. We'll soon be looking for beta-testers. https://bewise.dev/ //Product It's a Backend-as-a-Service, that lets you spin up a DB and server in a few clicks. Now that in itself is not revolutionary (see AppWrite, supabase, Netlify)....

I moved from a corporate role to a startup for the first time last year. Had the same need and was surprised how much SaaS-subscription costs were taking 📈 I think is one popular tool. Also Recently Seqoia-backed it seems. https://quolum.com/

The comments here cover it quite well. As @alexander_moen pointed to, be methodological about talking to your potential users: Do a few test interviews to begin with, then devise a interview plan and make sure to code responses, so you can do some broad brush strokes, analysis upon afterwards (shows you are willing to get your hands dirty and engage with your end-users, investors love...

Depends. I can think of many products where I would want one or the other. Or a mix as suggested by @iscu_andrei. Assuming you already know users want your product from previous user research I think the best approach is to do a (new) series of interviews, where you have explained exactly price, length of trial period and what the limited features are to the interviewee. And then code...

Specifically on the question how to reach out to the potential users and get them to talk. We did this thing once that worked really great: 1) Identified the location where the potential users frequent AND where there is a coffee bar. 2) Wear some company brand, logo, batch, t-shirt, hanger, something to look a little official. 3) Ask people in the cue whether they might want to participate in...